Asset Control has rebuilt the heart of its AC Plus data management platform to meet demands for transparency in pending regulations such as the US Dodd-Frank Act and Europe’s Basel III and Solvency II directives. The transparency aspects of incoming regulations is having a significant impact on firms’ approaches to data management, a theme that will be discussed at A-Team’s Data Management Summit in London on May 22.
PolarLake has responded to market – and regulator – demand for a real-time consolidated view of trade, position, reference and client data that can inform operational efficiency, risk management and compliance with a virtualised data warehouse solution based on service-oriented architecture (SOA) and semantic technologies.
Asset Control has extended data provision for risk management with the integration of direct access to DTCC Solutions’ Global Corporate Actions Validation Service (GCA VS) in its AC Plus data management platform. 
By Michel Lempicki, Corporate Development Director, StatPro
DataFlux’s release of version 2.2 of its DataFlux Data Management Platform introduces its so-called Business Data Network, a framework that allows data managers to set semantic terms across business areas. By adopting a common set of terms for securities, counterparties and activities, BDN can help institutions take a significant step toward a robust approach to data governance.
By Amir Halfon, Senior Director for Technology, Capital Markets, Oracle Financial Services
Following a record year of revenue and profitability growth in 2011, Eagle Investment Systems expects to continue the trend in 2012, backed by significant investment in R&D and personnel as it expands particularly outside of its US base. 
Shell’s rolling deployment of the Cadis EDM enterprise data management platform will give the petrochemicals giant a centralised repository for collection, normalisation and distribution of all foreign exchange rates and curves globally. The treasury department deployment, initially in London but soon to be at a series of overseas locations as well, will support all treasury applications and more than 30 ERP systems across the company.
National Australia Group (NAG) was engaged in a total of 22 data related projects last year, according to the group’s information architect Martin Campbell. Speaking at this month’s FIMA conference in London, Campbell discussed the decision to implement a new master data management system in partnership with software and consulting firm IPL in order to achieve greater consistency across the organisation and these tactically driven projects.
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This week sees the release of an industry briefing we prepared for Sybase entitled ‘Managing Risk Data in the Siloed Enterprise’. I’ll be presenting the key findings at an event in London on Tuesday, where I’ll be joined by a group of risk managers and data architects – as well as Sybase’s Stuart Grant, IDC Financial Insights’ Matt Clay and Deloitte’s Julian Leake – to talk about what’s emerging as our industry’s thorniest problem: how to extract data required to meet the reporting needs of senior management and regulators from the “spaghetti crow’s nest” of data repositories and plumbing connections that is today’s financial markets enterprise.
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